Re: [PATCH V3 0/5] Updates to EDAC and AMD MCE driver

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Thu Mar 03 2016 - 13:46:03 EST


On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 10:10:53AM -0600, Aravind Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> This patchset mainly provides necessary EDAC bits to decode errors
> occuring on Scalable MCA enabled processors and also updates AMD MCE
> driver to program the correct MCx_MISC register address for upcoming
> processors.
>
> Patches 1, 2 and 3 are for upcoming processor.
>
> Patches 4 and 5 are either fixing or adding comments to help in
> understanding the code and do not introduce any functional changes.
>
> Patch 1: Move MSR definition to mce.h
> Patch 2: Updates to EDAC driver to decode the new error signatures
> Patch 3: Fix logic to obtain correct block address
> Patch 4: Fix deferred error comment
> Patch 5: Add comments to amd_nb.h to describe threshold_block structure
>
> Note 1: Introduced new patch for moving MCx_CONFIG MSR to mce.h
> Note 2: The enums, amd_hwids[], and string arrays amd_core_mcablock_names[],
> amd_df_mcablock_names[] are placed in arch/x86 as there are
> follow-up patches which use them here.
>
> Changes from V1: (per Boris suggestions)
> - Simplify error decoding routines
> - Move headers to mce.h
> - Rename enumerations and struct members (to be more descriptive)
> - Drop gerund usage
> - Remove comments that are spelling out the code
>
> Changes from V2: (per Boris suggestions)
> - Incorporated all changes as suggested by Boris from here-
> - http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=145691594921586&w=2
> - http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=145691606221610&w=2
> - http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=145691610421627&w=2
> - No functional change is introduced
>
> Aravind Gopalakrishnan (5):
> x86/mce: Move MCx_CONFIG MSR definition
> EDAC, MCE, AMD: Enable error decoding of Scalable MCA errors
> x86/mce/AMD: Fix logic to obtain block address
> x86/mce: Clarify comments regarding deferred error
> x86/mce/AMD: Add comments for easier understanding
>
> arch/x86/include/asm/amd_nb.h | 18 +-
> arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h | 69 +++++++-
> arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 4 -
> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd.c | 127 +++++++++----
> drivers/edac/mce_amd.c | 334 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 5 files changed, 501 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)

Applied, minor stuff corrected and pushed out to

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp.git/log/?h=tip-ras

so that the 0day bot can chew on them a little.

Thanks.

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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